> From: tech-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lopsa.org] On Behalf > Of Brian Mathis > > OK, maybe there's a qualification here... the tools I've successfully > used operate inside the OS after its booted. If you're trying to > image from a separate boot disk or something, that's not going to > work.
Agreed. If you run a backup tool outside of Windows, there's basically no way possible to decrypt and intelligently backup just the used & changed parts of the filesystem. However, a lot of tools that run inside of Windows also don't work, because they're not working on top of the filesystem, or the encryption isn't happening at a low enough level, or something like that. It depends on which encryption tool you're using, and which backup tool. > Yes, I've been using the built-in Windows tools since they are free* > and so far I have not had any problems. I'm not doing complex image > management, just backups and restores of systems in the case of > hardware failure, etc... I have used both CompuSec Free and Truecrypt > with the same results, though it's been a while since using Compusec. So that's one good possibility: Windows built-in backup, and TrueCrypt or Compusec. As you alluded to earlier, there's one downside, which is the limitations of windows built-in backup. I'll start a separate thread for some more detail on this... _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
